Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs Radeon HD 5750

Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Radeon HD 5750
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2009
Radeon HD 5750

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5750

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5750

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5750

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3850 AGPRadeon HD 5750
GPU NameRV670 (RV670 PRO)vsJuniper (Juniper LE)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size192 mm²vs166 mm²
Transistors666 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders320vs720
Compute Units4vs9
Core clock668 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs16vs36

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3850 AGPRadeon HD 5750
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed828 MHz
1656 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3850 AGPRadeon HD 5750
TDP75 wattsvs86 watts
Release Date3 Jan 2008vs13 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    10.70 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5750
    11.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    10.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5750
    25.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    53.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5750
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    427.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5750
    1008.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better